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| Cairo police station attacked after man dies | |
| 2011-06-05 | |
| CAIRO - Angry protesters pelted a police station and torched an armored vehicle overnight following the death of a bus driver who fought a police officer. Security officials said Saturday they were investigating the case, which reignited long-simmering anger toward Egypt's security forces. Details of Mohammed Nasr's death were murky. Protesters attacked the east Cairo police station where he had been taken Thursday after a confrontation with a police officer in a busy square. Some witnesses told a lawyer investigating the case that Nasr had been beaten at the station. Outside the Cairo police station late Friday, protesters shouted: "The Interior Ministry has not changed! It is full of thugs!" And you were expecting .. what, exactly? An interior ministry official said Nasr slapped a police officer
After being bounced down elebenteen flights of stairs... and was taken to a hospital where he died, Apparently pining for the fjords... the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the investigation was ongoing. "Please don't reveal my identity, they'll kill me!" However, a hospital employee who refused to give his name said Nasr left the hospital alive. "He was getting better!" Mohammed Abdel-Aziz, a lawyer who specializes in torture cases and is investigating Nasr's death, said he received contradictory statements about it from witnesses. Some witnesses said Nasr was beaten at the police station, Abdel-Aziz said. Or maybe he died of acute cirrhosis... | |
| Posted by:Steve White |